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High school roundup: Frontier wins offensive showcase

Staff reports
11:26 p.m. EDT April 24, 2014

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Frontier's Brandon Gallinger slides safely across home plate during Game 1. Brent Drinkut/Journal & Courier Frontier's Brandon Gallinger comes in to score a run against North White during the first game of a double header, in Chalmers, on Friday, May 3, 2013.(Photo: Brent Drinkut/Journal & Courier, Brent Drinkut/Journal & Courier)Buy Photo

Frontier and Carroll combined for 31 hits in Thursday night’s baseball game but the Falcons made the most of their 17 in an 11-6 road win.

Brandon Gallinger, who was 4-for-5, and Cole Fesler, who went 3-for-4, each drove in three runs for the Class A No. 1 Falcons (10-2).

Austin Byrd was 3-for-4 while Kyle Mike and Carson Svoboda each had two hits for Frontier.

Seth Eldridge homered for Carroll.

Baseball

West Lafayette 13, Tri-County 7

Connor Micklo homered and contributed five RBIs as the Red Devils knocked off their second straight team from the Midwest Conference.

Kyle Turner added three RBIs and Parker Ronchetto tripled among his two hits. Mark Fisher also had two hits for West Side.

Lafayette Jeff 5, Kokomo 3

Austin Albrecht swiped three bases, pitched two innings of relief and went 2-for-3 with two runs scored for the Bronchos, who bounced back before a weekend series against McCutcheon.

Jeremy Griggs also had two hits and Lafayette Jeff’s lone RBI.

University 19, Faith Christian 10

A seven-run top of the first for the eagles was quickly erased when the Trail Blazers scored nine times in the second inning and forced the Eagles to play from behind.

Sam Ewing had four RBIs during his two-hit day and Vernon Ford was 3-for-4.

Terre Haute North 3, McCutcheon 1

Braden Giroux toed the rubber at Purdue University’s Alexander Field and struck out seven but errors and offensive inefficiency saddled him with the loss.

The Mavericks had just three hits, two off the bat of Spencer Caldwell.

Delphi 7, Northwestern 5

Ostin Clark had two hits, including a home run, and 3 RBIs, and Jason Sterrett had a pair of hits and an RBI in addition to earning a save with five strikeouts in two innings of shutout relief.

Weston Windell pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief to earn the win, striking out four and allowing only three hits for the Class 2A No. 10 Oracles.

North Newton 11, St. Anne (Ill.) 0

Justin Walk led the Spartans offensively with three hits, including a double, and three RBIs.

Crawfordsville 8, Western Boone 2

The Class 3A No. 8 Athenians got four solid innings of one-hit ball from Dane Baldwin, who struck out six, and a 3-for-3 effort at the plate from Nick Page, who scored four runs. Dalton Scaggs had three RBIs.

South Newton 7, North White 5

Kenny Applegate was 3-for-4, while Sam Applegate and Luke Kiifner had two hits and drove in two runs to lead the Rebels

Softball

Benton Central 4, Attica 1

Zoey Rowe homered and knocked in two runs and joined Kelsey Minniear and Sierra Morin with two hits apiece for the Bison, who got 10 strikeouts from pitcher Kennedy Lewellen.

Karrah Pattengale accounted for two of Attica’s five hits.

Covington 13, Turkey Run 11

The Trojans improved to 7-1 in an offensive battle, getting two RBIs and two runs from Regan Foster, who was 2-for-3 and stole two bases. Andi Taylor went 2-for-5 with a double and a triple.